The Maryland Curiosity Bureau

By WYPR 88.1 FM Baltimore

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What’s got you curious about Baltimore, the region, and its people? Is there a local mystery that’s always left you scratching your head? Veteran WYPR journalist Aaron Henkin is reporting to a new assignment editor: You. And together, you’ll find some answers, or at least learn something new along the way.


Episode Date
What’s Happening With Community Schools in Maryland?
Apr 03, 2023
Remembering Theo Hill
Mar 20, 2023
Why Is There An Abandoned Streetcar In The Woods?
Mar 13, 2023
Why Don’t Baltimore City Schools Have School Buses?
Feb 27, 2023
Why Is Baltimore’s Bus System Such A Mess?
Feb 20, 2023
Are Speed Cameras Actually Calming Traffic On The JFX?
Feb 13, 2023
Why Do I Get Called For Jury Duty So Often?
Jan 30, 2023
What’s With Those “Greatest City In America” Benches?
Jan 23, 2023
Why Is Lacrosse Such A Big Deal In Maryland?
Jan 16, 2023
Who Will Play My Piano?
Jan 09, 2023
Who Removes The Graffiti In Baltimore?
Jan 02, 2023
What's The History Of Rheb's Candies?
Dec 19, 2022
Who Was Myrtle Hazard, And Why Is There A Ship Named After Her?
Dec 12, 2022
What’s The Controversy With The Roland Water Tower In Hoes Heights?
Dec 05, 2022
Who Are The Marching Ravens?
Nov 28, 2022
Why Are There So Many Deer Everywhere?
Nov 21, 2022
What’s With The Abandoned Coffin Of Mathilda Lorenz?
Nov 14, 2022
What’s The Story With Fort Armistead Park?
Jun 01, 2022
How Did Jousting Become Maryland’s Official State Sport?
May 24, 2022
What's The Deal With Pit Beef?
May 16, 2022
Could Baltimore City & County Ever Unite?
May 09, 2022
What’s With That Random Simon Bolivar Statue?
Apr 29, 2022
What is Dr. Gloom’s Crypt of Curiosities?
Apr 18, 2022
Where is Baltimore’s Gayborhood?
Apr 11, 2022
What’s Baltimore’s Negro Leagues baseball history?
Apr 04, 2022
What's the story behind Old Bay?
Mar 28, 2022
Baltimore’s Sister Cities: Where are they? And why them?
Mar 21, 2022
Who’s behind those wire sculptures dangling on traffic lights?
Mar 14, 2022
Who are The Nighthawks?
Mar 07, 2022
What’s with the rat bumper sticker?
Feb 28, 2022
Baltimore's sister: Odesa, Ukraine
Feb 25, 2022
Who are the Odd Fellows?
Feb 14, 2022
How did the Baltimore accent happen?
Feb 07, 2022
What exactly is Lake Trout?
Jan 31, 2022
How will sea level rise impact Baltimore?
Jan 24, 2022
The complex ills of water bills
Jan 17, 2022
What happens to Baltimore’s recycling?
Jan 10, 2022
How did that giant Male/Female sculpture happen?
Dec 13, 2021
A stone-cold mystery
Dec 06, 2021
Why can’t Baltimore synchronize its traffic lights?
Nov 29, 2021
When will we be able to swim in the Inner Harbor?
Nov 22, 2021
What’s the story of Jewish migration & segregation in Baltimore?
Nov 15, 2021
Scrapple, why?
Nov 08, 2021
Who is the BDC, and why do they have so much power?
Nov 01, 2021
Can you fall in love in a city park?
Oct 25, 2021
Whatever happened to Baltimore's Dollar House program?
Oct 18, 2021
Where are Baltimore's hidden streams?
Sep 29, 2021
Trailer
Sep 23, 2021